Puppeteer

the world we see is far from the truth. “The Allegory of The Cave”, written by Plato is based upon the reality the prisoners believe they live in, which in truth, is far from the actual world itself. The shadows portrayed to the prisoners by the puppeteers, reconstruct their minds making them distort their sense on what is ethical. This correlates to society today, based on how people see what they want to see, even if it is not reality. The prisoners in the cave compare to society today by…

Plato’s allegory of the cave depicts the existence of human beings in the bleakest manner, we could view his allegory as one that is unfathomable and quite hard to contemplate in regards to human life and the existence as a whole. Plato’s take on the world clearly envisions the world as a singular cave, one that’s dark and enclosed, and human beings as though they are prisoners in this cave. The human beings are depicted to be trapped within the walls of the cave without a possibility of ever…

Life is but a Masquerade hiding our identity behind a false persona. Finding our self-identity is hard especially when we need to meet requirements in our society today. Though we all have a rudimentary understanding of our-selves. I and perhaps others feel that the reason why it is so hard in finding "our true selves" is that we are too busy hiding behind masks of different personas that we are distracted and do not find our identity. In these two films "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation"…

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we are shown different motifs of mental imprisonment against physical imprisonment. In his play the prisoners are chained in the cave and only able to see the shadows. But once, one of the prisoners was freed and he had no understanding of how to function in the outside world and wanted to go back to the cave but forced to go to the outside world. We see this in real life when we look at the American educational system; in High school students are told what to…

Finding Light in Darkness Around the world there are many individuals go through challenging obstacles in life. Some may be little almost to no importance, but others may be very serious and difficult to overcome. An obstacle that many people deal with in life is depression. In many ways, Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is very similar to depression and people who go through it in how their home is relatively like the cave, the slaves relate to the people suffering from depression, and the light…

The Wayang Kulit is a famous shadow puppet play in Indonesia. Wayang means shadow and Kulit means leather. This is to be said one of the earliest forms of puppet dancing, going back to the year 800. The origin of the Wayang Kulit comes from Indonesia, although there have been arguments that it also could have come from China. This style of theater is based on the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata". The Ramayana is a story where a prince Rama tries to rescue his wife from an evil king and The…

ignorant, and refuse to see something from others perspective. This can relate to many current events in today’s world. What is happening in North Korea is a perfect example of how people choose only to see from their perception. Everything from the puppeteers relating to Kim Jong-un, to the shackles equating to not being able to leave or know anything from the outside world, all correlate to the Allegory of the Cave. To start with, the shadows or even the fire are what the prisoners are…

women would have no such idea as to even dare think of that. The women of the Mid 1700s did not have many rights. Women were seen as nothing more than mere objects. They were to be controlled in the age of enlightenment. Men took the role of the puppeteer and women took the role of their puppets. For a long time up until the 1960’s, women were seen as the “second sex”, and…

Otherwise, I am fearful for our future and for the future of our Nation, we are one pre-planned catastrophe away from all-out war. And, the problem we all have is, identifying the enemy within and the titles of the puppeteers acting as government officials. What we are witnessing on campuses, in parks and cities around the nation is not spontaneous or natural, one cannot help but think, there is a force or an organization behind the sheer madness of the activities we…

The horror genre has evolved drastically over time. When one mentions horror today, they might imagine the screams of poor teenagers as all their guts are ripped from their bodies, or the unsettling tension created by the knowledge that evil lurks around characters that are oblivious. Over the years, horror has had to keep audiences on their toes and switch up their scaring tactics to kept the adrenaline pumping. But is the horror film dependent on the scares it provides, or the topic within the…